--- title: The either-or: pretend there are only two choices ("Either you feed… — Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts… · tree and pragmatics description: The either-or: pretend there are only two choices ("Either you feed the hamster or he starves!") when there is a rota on the fridge, literally right there. Who acts: you, two choices, hamster, rota. A sentence of the lesson «Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or» of the worl --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / [Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or/) / 8 # Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or, sentence 8 The either-or: pretend there are only two choices ("Either you feed the hamster or he starves!") when there is a rota on the fridge, literally right there. **Who acts:** you, two choices, hamster, rota · **What happens:** pretend, be, feed, starve · **To what, where:** hamster This is a sentence of the lesson «Fighting fair: no straw men, no moving goalposts, no either-or» of the world course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, two choices, hamster, rota), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:world:189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or.lesson:8 # text = The either-or: pretend there are only two choices ("Either you feed the hamster or he starves!") when there is a rota on the fridge, literally right there. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = world # lesson = 189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 2 either either CCONJ CC _ 6 cc:preconj _ _ 3 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 4 or or CCONJ CC _ 2 cc _ _ 5 : : PUNCT : _ 2 punct _ _ 6 pretend pretend VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:parataxis 7 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 8 expl _ _ 8 are be VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 ccomp _ _ 9 only only ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 10 two two NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 choices choice NOUN NNS Number=Plur 8 nsubj _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 16 punct _ _ 13 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ _ 14 Either either CCONJ CC _ 16 cc:preconj _ _ 15 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 feed feed VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 appos _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=8:parataxis 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 hamster hamster NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obj _ _ 19 or or CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 20 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 starves starve VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=0:root 22 ! ! PUNCT . _ 21 punct _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 24 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 21 punct _ _ 25 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 26 there there PRON EX PronType=Dem 27 expl _ _ 27 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 advcl _ _ 28 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 29 rota rota NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 30 on on ADP IN _ 32 case _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 fridge fridge NOUN NN Number=Sing 29 nmod _ _ 33 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 34 literally literally ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 35 right right ADV RB _ 36 advmod _ _ 36 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 27 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=21:advmod 37 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pretend** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **does** | present | two choices | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 3 | **feed** *in a quote* | present | you | | the hamster | | | | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hamster=Recipient | | 4 | **starve** *in a quote* | present | hamster | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **be** | present | a rota on the fridge | | | there; there | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:world:189-fighting-fair-no-straw-men-no-moving-goalposts-no-either-or.lesson:8`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×4, R6-punct-agree ×2. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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